Is it, though? In the last 8 elections they've gone for the GOP 3 times.
Yesterday, the news was complaining that iOwa public school enrollment has dropped some 30%. They "reason" that kid are moving to more rural communities. Hells bells, iOwa public schools are losing students because iOwa parents are moving out of the F-ing state altogether. And that too is the reason iOwa is now a red state despite voting for Obama TWICE. All of those Obama voters have fled iOwa as well. Wouldn't YOU?
And then, there is THIS:
Going after the Gays
iOwa Senate subcommittee moves plan forward to restrict LGBTQ concepts in schools
DES MOINES, Iowa —
On Thursday, an Iowa Senate subcommittee moved a bill forward that would restrict LGBTQ topics in schools. The bill is more expansive than the other plans seen so far this session. It would also create harsher penalties for school districts.
This bill would ban school districts from providing any "program, curriculum, material, test, survey, questionnaire, activity, announcement, promotion or instruction of any kind relating to gender identity or sexual orientation." That content would be banned for all Iowa students in kindergarten through
eighth grade.
Parents would be allowed to sue the school district, and districts would face civil penalties between $10,000 and $50,000.
Some parents spoke in favor of the changes Thursday, arguing they're needed to
protect young kids.
Young children
do not have the capacity to understand or process these complex issues," Angie Winell, of Moms for Liberty, said.
Some LGBTQ students shared their own personal stories.
"Transgender is not a bad word. I am not a bad person," one
7-year-old transgender student told lawmakers Thursday. "If kids at school start bullying because of who I am and I need help,
how could my teachers help me if it's illegal to talk about it? And if they did, people could sue them. That would make me feel sad and terrible inside."
I ask.... why are republican states like iOwa going after LGBTQ kids????
Because.... THEY CAN.
They would go after black kids, if they could and could get away with it. But since they can't, then LGBTQ kids are their target. But the good news, republican states like iOwa will self destruct. The youth are fleeing, college grads are fleeing, and all iowa has left are the old fart farmers. Case in point, Chuck Grassley. The fartiest old fart of them all.